Wheel press.



A. A. LONGAKER.

WHEEL PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1913.

Patented Mar. 24, 19%

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ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES:

A. A. LONGAKER.

WHEEL PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1913.

1,091,458. Patented Mar. 24, 19m

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INVE/VTUR ALBERT A. LONGAKER, OF CHAMBERSBU BER-SBURG ENGINEERINGCOMPANY, CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

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RG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO CHAM- OF CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, A

WHEEL-PRESS.

Application filed July 1,

To (LU whom it may concern:

Be itkuown that 1. ALBERT A. Loxexunu,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident 7 of Chambersburg, in thecounty of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, have made certain new anduseful Improvements in lVheel-Tresses, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in presses for mounting wheels uponor deinounting them from an axle, and the object of my invention is tofurnish a. press for this purpose so arranged that the wheels and axlemay be brought to it upon one side and after being operated upon can beremoved from the other side, and which will have but two beams, bothfixed, viz: a resistance beam and a cylinder beam.

In my invention I make use of a cylinder beam of the usual constructionwhich car ries the usual pump, valves and conduits for generating andcontrolling the hydraulic pressure necessary to operate the piston orram in the cylinder carried by the beam, and I furnish a novel form offixed C shaped resistance beam as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification andin which similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughoutthe several view: Figure 1, is a side elevation of my wheel press theframe of the resistance beam being formed in one casting: Fig. 2, a.similar view the casting of the resistance beam being made in severalpieces bolted together: Fig. 8, an end elevation of the distance piece1e: Fig. d, an end elevation of the sleeve 16: Fig. 5, a side elevationof stop 11.

1 is the cylinder beam carrying the usual pump 2, a suitable means 8 fordriving the pump, and connections from the pump to the cylinder whichcarries the ram 4. All of these parts are so well known that detaileddescription of them will be unnecessary here.

5 is the resistance beam which is C shaped and which is tied to thecylinder beam by rods or bolts 6 as shown in Fig. 1, or which may beformed of several pieces, as 789, which are bolted together and to thecylinder beam as shown in Fig. 2. The resistance beam is furnished witha stop holder 10 which carries a removable stop 11, the stopSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2st, 1914.

1913. Serial No. 776,851.

holder being furnished with a cavity back of the stop to receive the endof an axle when the press is being used to force the left hand wheelupon it.

12 is a gap in the right hand or inner end of the resistance beam whichcarries a removable stop 13 which forms the abutment for the distancepiece 1 1, which is carried 5 upon a jib crane 15 carried by theresistance beam. This stop is used only in demounting wheels.

16 is a sleeve, carried by a trolley 17 on a ,jib crane 18 carried bycylinder beam 1, which is engaged by the ram 4 to mount the right handwheel upon an axle.

19 are wheel trucks of usual construction for carrying wheels whilebeing mounted upon or demounted from their axle.

The axle carrying the wheels to be mounted is rolled into the machinefrom either side, the distance piece 1% being swung out of the way andthe stop 11 being in place in its holder. The wheels rest upon thetrucks 19 and the sleeve 16 is in position against ram 1 as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. The ram 1 is new advanced and the sleeve 16 engages theouter face of the right hand wheel hub and pushes it on to its seat orfit upon the axle. The stop 11 is now removed and a further movement ofram et will push the axle into the left hand wheel a proper distance. Itmight be feasible to remove the stop 11 in the first place and to ushboth wheels on their seats simultaneously the faces of the stop holder10 and stop 13 acting as a gage for the tread of the wheels.

It will be understood that during the operation of seating the wheelsupon the axle the crane 15 is swung to one side so as to remove thedistance piece 1 1 from the path of the axle. Then the distance piece isso removed the wheels and axle may be placed in or removed from eitherside of the machine. To demount a wheel the stop 11 is removed, thecrane 15 is swung around so as to bring the inner end of distance piece1 L against the inner end of the gap in the center resistance beam, orthe stop 13 carried thereby, and the crane 18 carrying the sleeve 16,which is only used in mounting the right hand wheel on the axle, isswung outward so as to move the sleeve 16 away from the end and toone-side of the ram. The axle carrying the wheel is now placed in themachine, the inner end of the hub of the right hand wheel restingagainst the outer, or right hand, end of the distance piece 14 and theram 4 is advanced until it engages the right hand end of the axle topush it out of the wheel. The axle is now turned end for end and thesame operation is gone through with and thus both wheels aresuccessively removed.

21 is a pivoted carrier, carried by the casting of resistance beam 5,upon which the axle rests and which supports the axle and wheels whileturning them end for end in the machine.

In Fig. 1 the resistance beam is shown formed in a single casting. InFig. 2 it is shown formed of three pieces 789, the piece 7 being boltedto the left hand ends of pieces 8 and 9 and the right hand ends of thesepieces being securely attached to cylinder beam 1.

My aim, which is to furnish an end re sistance beam which will permitwheels to be either mounted upon or demounted from their axles and whichwill be soconstructed that the axle and wheels may be introduced uponone side and removed from the other side of the machine, may beaccomplished by constructions other than those shown, I do not,therefore, desire to confine myself to any particular construction ofthis part except as required by the scope of the claims.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a wheel press, in combination, a stationarybeam, a ram carried by said beam, means for operating said ram, astationary end resistance beam furnished with a stop adapted to receivethe end of an axle and to engage the hub of a wheel carried thereby, anda stationary through gapped stop located between said ram carrying beamand said end beam adapted to engage the hub of a wheel carried by theother end of the axle, said ram and stops being all in substantiallyaxial alinement.

2. In a wheel press, in combination, a ram and means for operating thesame, a stationary cylinder beam carrying said ram, a stationaryresistance beam having at its outer end a stop holder adapted tointeriorly receive an end of an axle and to engage the hub of a wheelcarried by said axle and having at its inner end a through gapped stopadapted to engage the hub of another wheel carried by said axle, saidram, through gapped stop, and stop holder being all in axial alinement,and a removable stop carried by said stop holder.

3. In a wheel press, in combination, a cylinder beam, a ram carried bysaid beam, means for operating said ram, and a combined end and centerresistance beam, the latter being furnished with a through gap for theaxle and the former with an adjustable stop, said stop, gap and rambeing all in axial alinement, and said beams being immovably secured oneto the other.

4:. In a wheel press, in combination, a cylinder beam, a ram carried bysaid beam, means for operating said ram, a stationary resistance beamcarrying a stationary through gapped stop intermediate of said beams,said stops and ram being in substantially axial alinement, and arevoluble axle support, pivotally carried by said through gapped stop,for permitting said axle to be turned end for end without removal fromthe press.

GEO. H. DnRBYsHmE, LILLIAN M. WOLF.

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